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Acheshvaros (militants) are two huge thugs (conscripts to Russia n
mentality) whom bear murderous intentions toward the Jewis h
race. The scene takes place late into the night of Purim in the
upstairs busin-agogue room, during a teenage party organized b y
the wayward adult son of the Elephant family. His celebration
ensconced a multitude of unrefined visitors who swarmed about
the synagogue and dwelling areas in the Chabad House, reveling
in swigs of alcoholic beverages, long gone in pursuit of d'lo yedah.
Allusion to the Purim Megillah: Vashti was put to death fo r
violating the will of Acheshvaros , because of her refusal to appear
naked in his courtyard. Ha man repressed the hapless Jewis h
residents of Persia; wanting Mordechai to prostrate himse lf before
him. Esther, the beautiful maiden sacrificed her prudent ideals ;
and Mordechai suffered while those he wished to save were
bowing and kowtowing before those conspiring to destroy the m.
The aspect of this story that is historically neglected is ho w the
Jewish people brought these wicked circumstances upon
themselves by participating in the oppressors' frivolities that were
perpetuated in order to entice the m to sin. Utilitarian and hedonist
pleasure, the norm in the modern era , has overco me the sensibilit y
of limitation.
The stage is set for the drama of my demise, and precocious
escape fro m murderous existential hurricane that threatens to
destroy everything in its path. An inexplicable "spark," an atomic
force pulsates, and impels certain forms of energy into a direction,
motion. It charges substance to move from restiveness in a
potential state to be activated in a kinetic state. In Physics, one
learns to alter the effect of gravity by balancing weight against
height, by using pulleys and strings to raise heavy objects with the
least amount of exertion. Then there is the electromagnetic forces
within the human physiology that cause attraction or repulsion,
forces that draw people to one another according to the laws o f
applied physics.
I knew my situation was becoming more ephe meral , that
perilous Purim night; the hairs and the skin of my body acting like
the surface of a balloon rubbed against wool. Befuddled by an
earnestness that had been natural to me during the decade when I
attended the college of "free sex," and subject to whims of fantasy,
any percussion of sound upon my tympanic me mbrane echoed
within my mind and signaled of pleasure to be beheld one flight
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